Take from me | Take from me your example of a lover

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Prenez sur moi

Language: Old French (Ancien français)

Our translations: ENG

Prenez sur moi vostre exemple amoureux
Commencement d'amours est savoureux
Et le moyen plein de paine et tristesse
Et la fin est d'avoir plaisant maistresse
Mais au saillir sont les pas dangereux.

Servant amours me suis trouve eureux
L'une des foix et l'aultre malleureux
Ung jour sentant confort l'autre destresse
    Prenez sur moi vostre exemple amoureux
    Commencement d'amours est savoureux
    Et le moyen plein de paine et tristesse

Pour ung plaisir cent pensers ennuieux
Pour ung solas cent dangiers perileux
Pour ung accueil cent regars par rudesse
S'amours sert donc de tels mets a largesse
Et les loiaux fait les plus doloureux.

    Prenez sur moi vostre exemple amoureux
    Commencement d'amours est savoureux
    Et le moyen plein de paine et tristesse
    Et la fin est d'avoir plaisant maistresse
    Mais au saillir sont les pas dangereux.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Johannes Ockeghem (1410?25 - 1497), "Prenez sur moi" [
text verified 1 time
]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Take from me", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-09-10
Line count: 21
Word count: 134

Take from me

Language: English after the Old French (Ancien français)

Take from me your example of a lover,
The beginning of love is a thing to savour
And the middle is full of trouble and sadness
And the end is having a pleasing mistress
But dangerous steps to escape her!

Serving love, I have found myself fortunate
At one time, unfortunate at another,
One day feeling comfort, the next distress.
  Take from me your example of a lover,
  The beginning of love is a thing to savour
  And the middle is full of trouble and sadness.

For one pleasure, a hundred hurtful thoughts
For one comfort, a hundred frightful dangers,
For one welcome, a hundred harsh glances;
Love serves such dishes bountifully
And makes faithful men the unhappiest.

  Take from me your example of a lover,
  The beginning of love is a thing to savour
  And the middle is full of trouble and sadness
  And the end is having a pleasing mistress
  But dangerous steps to escape her!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Old French (Ancien français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2012-09-10
Line count: 21
Word count: 158